A thoughtfully curated collection of articles on innovative solutions, brought together to inspire and inform.
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What can we do about ultraprocessed foods?
Researchers are figuring out the features of these foods that harm our health — and proposing ways ahead
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Episode 12: Unwrapping Food's Plastic Problem – FoodPrint
Unpack the hidden dangers of plastic in our food system, from climate impacts to toxic chemicals—and explore what a plastic-free food future might really look like.
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How to avoid eating microplastics and chemicals in plastic – FoodPrint
Learn how microplastics get into your food and discover simple steps to lower your exposure, from safer cookware to smarter food choices.
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What’s Causing the Global Food Crisis? (And How Plant-Based Diets Can Help!)
The world is facing an unprecedented food crisis. Find out about some of the causes of world hunger and how you can be part of the solution.
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Beans May Be the ‘Food of the Future,’ but U.S. Farmers Aren’t Planting Enough | Civil Eats
Legumes are great for people and soil, but high prices for corn and soy, plus extreme weather due to climate change, threaten domestic production.
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The Radical Power of Your Sourdough Starter
For fermentation revivalist Sandor Katz, making sourdough, kimchi, and kombucha is about more than eating well at home. It’s a metaphor for creative systemic change, bubbling away from the ground up.
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Menu of the Future: Insects, Weeds, and Bleeding Veggie Burgers
Here are 5 innovative foods you’ll be seeing more of soon.
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Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht Talks About How to Keep Local Farmers Farming
We visited Garden of Eve’s annual Garlic Festival and chatted with Eve about maintaining a 65-acre biodiverse farm and delivering a CSA to a large urban center.
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Nat’l Chicken Council Wants to Increase Poultry Slaughterhouse Speeds; Comment Period Open
Make your voice heard on whether the National Chicken Council should be able to further increase the speeds that companies slaughter and process chickens.
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Global Food Crops Also Face Earth’s Sixth Great Mass Extinction
Human civilization depends on our food supplies, but the planet’s sixth mass extinction of plants and animals currently underway also threatens our food crops.
